Form Auto-Fill and Spell Check in GBL

Dec 6, 2011

Since the demise of the official Google toolbar for Firefox, I've been getting a number of requests to add the "form auto-fill" and "form spell checking" features from that official toolbar to Googlebar Lite. I will not add either feature to this extension, simply because they are beyond the scope of the extension's purpose. Neither feature has anything to do with searching the web, which is the sole purpose of Googlebar Lite. If you want these two features, you need to look elsewhere.

Keep in mind that Googlebar Lite existed long before Google offered an official toolbar for Firefox. I created Googlebar Lite as a light-weight alternative to the Googlebar, not as a response to anything Google did. My primary goal with Googlebar Lite has been, and always will be, to keep it as small and bloat-free as possible. Adding features that have nothing to do with using Google's search platform only add bloat. As such, I will not be implementing them here.

2 Comments

Isaac Rabinovitch

4:55 AM on Dec 10, 2011
Right you are. GBL's best feature is its lack of bloat. Like all good browser extensions, it does one thing, and concentrates on doing it well. That's why I switched to GBL in the first place: the official Googlebar was bloated and buggy. There are plenty of form filling extensions for Firefox. Pick the one that works best for you.

Steve

10:24 PM on Dec 22, 2011
I too really appreciate GBL and it's lack of "bloat." The only feature I miss from the now defunct Google version is the option to open the search results in a new window, which is useful for organizing research results. thanks and happy holidays, Steve

Leave a Comment

Ignore this field:
Never displayed
Leave this blank:
Optional; will not be indexed
Ignore this field:
Both Markdown and a limited set of HTML tags are supported
Leave this empty: